Home/ בית

Home/ בית
Israel, 2020, 26’
in Hebrew w/ Eng./ Arm. subtitles

Director, Producer, and Cinematographer: Smadar Epstein Palgi
Scriptwriters: Smadar Epstein Palgi, Nir Dvorchin
Editor: Nir Dvorchin
Sound: Ilan Admon
Two women work together, cleaning the apartment belonging to one, who lives amongst piles of junk and dirt collected through years of neglect. Over the years, she has also taken in 12 cats, whom she treats like kings, taking up most of her time and energy – cleaning and replacing the litter boxes, feeding, caring for them, and more. As the two women work together, an intimate connection is formed, and conflict arises between one friend’s desire to help and the other’s inability to part with her filth, her stuff, and her habits.

Awards

First Student Documentary Prize, Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2020.

Smadar Epstein Palgi

Born in Haifa, Israel in 1970, Smadar Epstein Palgi teaches art and photography. As a photographer and artist, after years of teaching art at school, Palgi began to work as a video photographer, using it as a therapeutic tool connecting people to create challenging relationships. Palgi is a graduate of Bet Berl Academy in art and education, and holds an MA in Film Studies from Sapir College. Her work has been featured in group exhibits from 2008 to 2016. Her film Home has been submitted to student competitions of Docaviv documentary festival and the Solidarity Festival in Tel Aviv. It has won first place at two festivals in the student film category.

Filmography

Home (2020).